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Mooney family
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30 cm of textual records and 4 architectural drawings
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Biographical history
Bernard Mooney (ca. 1822-1890) was born in County Derry, Ireland and came to Saint John, New Brunswick in 1862 and established a business as a builder. His firm, B. Mooney and Sons, was responsible for many of the major buildings in Saint John, including the Saint John High School, the Cotton Mill, and the Public Hospital, Centennial Methodist Church, and Ready's Breweries, Fredericton. The firm also built water and sewage works in many parts of the province and worked on the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway.
The family created a number of other companies, including B. Mooney and Sons Realty, and Mooney Quarries. Bernard's sons Patrick (ca. 1851-1918), Michael Francis (d. 1924) and Edward (d.1925) worked with him, as did his grandsons, Bernard (1896-1939), John Patrick (b. ca. 1897) and Edward James (b. 1881). After the elder Edward died intestate in 1925 his widow, Mary Ellen (d. 1960) took over his interests in the family business. Her son, Edward Thomas Kirby Mooney formed E. Mooney Construction in 1952. Her other children were Leon, Evelyn C., Marie Bernice Byron, Clarissa and Hortense Marie Cunningham. One of the members of the family was probably a member of the provincial Assessment Appeal Tribunal in 1967.
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Information about the custody of these records prior to acquisition is incomplete.
Scope and content
This fonds consists of family, business and personal records and a number of appeals to the Assessment Appeals Tribunal. Mary Ellen Mooney's records include detailed invoices and receipts, mostly for the maintenance of 112 Queen Street, Saint John, the house in which she lived and rented apartments. There are also some correspondence, invoices and bills of lading for gravel and stone bought from the Mooney Quarries, 1957-1961. There are working papers and estimates from E. Mooney Construction, 1957 and 4 blue prints for the New Brunswick Electric Power Commission building in Fredericton, 1959.
Among the personal papers are receipts belonging to Claire Mooney and some records belonging to Leon Mooney. The records of the Assessment Appeals Tribunal are copies of appeals from York, Charlotte, Northumberland, Kent, Restigouche and Gloucester counties filed in 1967 with notes attached. They appear to be the copies used by one of the members of the Tribunal during the hearings.
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The fonds was transferred the Provincial Archives by Ron Jack of the New Brunswick Museum after an archival survey conducted in 1980.
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- English
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